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Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec.
5. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
In sports, quantitative rarity occurs like the full moon. It's not a daily or
weekly thing, but if you watch long enough you're bound to see it: Pablo
Sandoval becomes only the fourth player to slug three dingers in a World
Series game; Miguel Cabrera wins the first Triple Crown since the year the
Super Bowl was invented. (If that doesn't sound far enough in the past,
consider that the Chiefs were in it.)
It's qualitative difference, though, that is truly rare